| Three West Virginia reserve centers would be closed and an Air National Guard unit would be stripped of its planes under a Department of Defense plan to save billions of dollars.
Army Reserve centers in Huntington and Fairmont and a Navy Marine center in Moundsville are among more than 150 large and small military installations across the country recommended for closure.
The Associated Press has also learned that the eight C-130 turboprop cargo planes based at the Charleston-based 130th Air National Guard Airlift Wing would be transferred to Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina.
The base closing process begins Monday when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld presents the list to the nine-member Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
If the list is approved by Congress by the end of the year, the Pentagon has six years to close, relocate or downsize the bases.
The proposal would mean the loss of 105 military personnel at WVs three reserve centers.
W.Va. Air National Guard: www.wvang.ang.af.mil/contents.htm
Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission: www.dod.mil/brac
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